Portraits of Spiritual Authority

Religious Power in Early Christianity, Byzantium and the Christian Orient
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11459-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World

This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society.
A number of literary portraits are examined, portraits which, in various literary genres, are themselves designed to establish and propagate the authority of the people whose lives and activities they describe.
The sequence begins with visionary and prophetic figures of the second and third centuries, proceeds through several testimonies from the fourth century to the power of holy persons, moves on to Syriac portraits of the fifth to seventh centuries, and ends with the demise of the authority of the holy man in the eighth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drijvers, Jan Willem

Watt, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Willem Drijvers, Ph.D. (1989), University of Groningen, is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Groningen. He has published on various topics concerning Late Antiquity, including Helena Augusta, The Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of Her Finding of the True Cross (Leiden, 1992). He is co-author of Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXII, XXIII (Groningen, 1995, 1998).
John W. Watt, Ph.D. (1974), University of St. Andrews, is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies, Cardiff University. His publications include Philoxenus of Mabbug, Fragments of the Commentary on Matthew and Luke (Louvain, 1978) and The Fifth Book of the Rhetoric of Antony of Tagrit (Louvain, 1986).